Quotes from work

There Will Come Soft Rains

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale. The work was first published in the July 1918 issue of Harper's Magazine, and later included in her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow . The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished. The poem also alludes to the idea of human extinction by war , which was not a commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons, 25 years later.